Quilt Festival 2016: Part Five
100 Canvases: Canvas #36

The (Long) Journey of a Painting

I finished a new painting!  It took me about six months.  Long journey, right?  The good news is that I absolutely love it.  The bad news is that you don't get to see it until tomorrow.  Today is simply about the journey.

I came back from Australia in May and was all creatively charged up.  I wanted to paint!  And so I did:

from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting

But then things got busy.  I started working on projects for Make It Artsy and the painting pretty much became a cool background for photos.

from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting

Some time during the summer I decided to attack the canvas once more.  It went in two waves.

Wave one: drips.

from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting
from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting

Wave two: stenciling.

from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting

I thought the painting might be done at this point.  But someone came by and mentioned that they didn't think it was and I let that bug get in my ear.  Shouldn't have, but I did.  So, the painting sat and stared (quite literally) at me for several months.

This Fall I decided to try and improve it.

from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting
from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting
from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting

Maybe it's done now?  

Well, I just couldn't leave well enough alone.

from the Balzer Designs Blog: The (Long) Journey of a Painting

Ugh.  What is it now?

Well, you'll have to come back tomorrow to see the finished (and it definitely is finished -- I signed it and hung it in my kitchen) painting!

Thanks for stopping by!

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